wa

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English

Etymology 1

Noun

wa

1. A traditional proa-style outrigger canoe of the Caroline Islands.

Etymology 2

From Thai วา (waa)

Noun

wa (plural wa)

1. A traditional Thai unit of length, approximately two metres.

Etymology 3

Noun

wa (uncountable)

1. In Japanese society, the favouring of a harmonious community over one's personal interests.

Anagrams

• aw

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch wagen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑː/

Noun

wa (plural waens, diminutive waentjie)

1. wagon
2. cart
3. automobile, car

Synonyms

• (car): kar

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Amele

Noun

wa

1. water

References

• John R. Roberts, Amele Organised Phonology Data (1998)

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Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wà]

Particle

wa

1. final interrogative particle on a yes/no question

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Bau

Noun

wa

1. water

Further reading

• Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data

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Butmas-Tur

Noun

wa

1. water

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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Egyptian

Romanization

wa

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of wꜥ.

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Etulo

Verb

wā

1. drink

   ḿ wēnî — I drink water

   ḿ wēnī — I drank water

References

• Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)

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German

Etymology

From dialectal wat (“what”).

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /va/
  • (Berlin) IPA^(key): [vɐ̠]

Adverb

wa

1. (colloquial, regional, parts of northern and central Germany) right?; is it?; is it not?

   Wir müssen da lang, wa?

   We need to go this way, don't we?

Synonyms

• gell
• ne
• nicht
• nicht wahr
• oder

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /vah/, /vhah/
  • IPA^(key): [ʋæh], [ʋhæh] (parts of northern Germany)

Particle

wa

1. (colloquial, potentially rude) what, huh (expresses that something was extremely hard to understand acoustically or outlandish in content)

Usage notes

• Also spelled wat. Especially common in Hamburg and western Holstein, where dialects traditionally drop final /t/ (especially after fricatives).

Synonyms

• hä, hüä
• was

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French roi (“king”)

Noun

wa

1. king

   Synonym: rwa

See also

• rèn

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Japanese

Romanization

wa

1. Rōmaji transcription of わ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ワ
3. Rōmaji transcription of は
4. Rōmaji transcription of ハ
5. Rōmaji transcription of わっ
6. Rōmaji transcription of ワッ

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Kapampangan

Interjection

wa

1. yes

Antonyms

• ali

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Kashubian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *va

Pronoun

wa

1. you (second-person plural)

Declension

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Mandarin

Romanization

wa (Zhuyin ˙ㄨㄚ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 哇

wa

1. Nonstandard spelling of wā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of wá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of wǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of wà.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Marshallese

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *waŋka. Cognate with Maori waka, Tongan vaka, Hawaiian waʻa.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [wɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wæɰ/
• Bender phonemes:

Noun

wa

1. canoe, ship, boat
2. vehicle

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

Verb

wa

1. to fall

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Old English

Alternative forms

• wei, wǣ
• ƿa (wynn spelling)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɑː/

Noun

wā n

1. woe

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• wā lā wā

Related terms

• wāwa
• wēa

Descendants

• Middle English: wa, wo, woo
  • English: woe
  • Scots: wa, wae

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Panim

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wæ/

Noun

wa

1. water

Further reading

• Panim Talking Dictionary

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Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *-wa, from Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

Verb

-wa

1. to fall

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

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Sa

Noun

wa

1. water

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Scots

Alternative forms

• waw

Etymology

From Old English weall, ultimately from Latin vallum.

Noun

wa (plural was)

1. wall

Verb

wa (third-person singular present was, present participle wain, past wad, past participle wad)

1. to wall

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Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

Verb

wa

1. to fall

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Swahili

Particle

wa

1. M class inflected form of -a.
2. U class inflected form of -a.
3. Wa class inflected form of -a.

Verb

-wa (infinitive kuwa)

1. to be

Conjugation

Usage notes

You can add the -po, -ko, or -mo locative class markers to the end of any conjugated future tense, past tense, or general relative form of wa to indicate presence at a place, either definite, indefinite, or internal, even if there is already a different object concord. In the present tense, the subject markers can just be added to the beginning of -po, -ko, or -mo directly per their inflection tables.

In the positive general relative of wa, the subject marker is prepended to -li- (different from the past tense "-li-") rather than "wa". In the negative general relative, the -kuwa suffix is dropped.

For conjugation of the verb to have, represented in the infinitive as kuwa na, see -wa na.

Prefix

wa

1. Marks a verb's object as 3rd person plural.

   ninawapenda

   I like them

2. Marks a verb's object as 2nd person plural.

ninawaona

I see you

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Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

Verb

wa

1. to fall

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Unami

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wa]

Pronoun

wa

1. this (animate)

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Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

Verb

wa

1. to fall

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West Frisian

Pronoun

wa

1. who (interrogative)

Further reading

• “wa (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *-wa, from Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

Verb

-wa

1. (intransitive) to fall

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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Zay

Etymology

Cognate to Silt'e [script needed] (-wa:).

Conjunction

wa

1. and

References

• Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind

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Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *-wa, from Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

Verb

-wa

1. (intransitive) to fall, to drop

Inflection

Derived terms

• iwa

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “wa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “wa”